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Anyone still playing Basic Roleplaying?

I was curious if anyone was playing the Basic Rolplaying Sysytem (BRP). I am also interested if anyone is using it to play Call of Cthulu or Elric still, but was mainly wondering if anyone is doing a non-Cthu'lu/Elric game of BRP, and if so, what you are playing?

We have a CoC campaign going right now that is being run by one of the GMs in the group. It's set during prohibition.

I'm working on getting a fantasy or weird west game starting using BRP myself.

As far as how popular it is or not...

I think a lot of that is due to the minimal marketing it gets by the company. The guys at Chaosium don't have the big budget like Wizards does, so it tends to be a sleeper system. I personally prefer it to other systems, especially level based systems. But sometimes it's hard to get players to switch from DnD to it.

Last edited by Skunkape; 09-30-2013 at 05:10 PM.
Reason: Added aditional thought about popularity of system.

The guys at Chaosium don't have the big budget like Wizards does, so it tends to be a sleeper system.

That's an understatement. Chaosium is basically four guys; they use freelancers to actually write books. CoC is their "cash cow"; of their previous lines only "core" BRP remains, and their Magic World line is just getting started.

Mongoose re-implemented the system several years back for their own version of RQ. Last year they lost the RuneQuest license, which went to The Design Mechanism, so Mongoose renamed their version to Legend.

So that's three companies who invested at the system: one is a shadow of its former self, another is backing away from RPGs, and a third just started last year. The system is sound, but RPG companies aren't doing well in this economy.

"On two occasions I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able rightly to apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question."
- Charles Babbage (1791 - 1871)

So that's three companies who invested at the system: one is a shadow of its former self, another is backing away from RPGs, and a third just started last year. The system is sound, but RPG companies aren't doing well in this economy.

Like who is outside of the 1%?

I can't call myself a fan of BRP I've used it I know Chaosium has not let it languish into a gaming fossil.

Garry AKA --Phoenix-- Rising above the Flames. My favorite game console is a table and chairs. The Olde Phoenix Inn

I'm still running a weird west campaign using BPR with the Pathfinder spells bolted on. I'm also running a fantasy BRP campaign with the Pathfinder spells bolted on it as well. So far, both campaigns are coming along very nicely.